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COMPLETELY UNREADABLE BAND LOGO OF THE WEEK, BROUGHT TO YOU BY MARCH IS METAL MONTH! WIN AN AUTOGRAPHED COPY OF EXODUS’ SHOVEL HEADED TOUR MACHINE DVD!

Axl Rosenberg — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:30:48 +0000

Hats off to Karina Rucinque. She correctly identified last week’s logo as that of the band Nasty Pig Dick. For her troubles, Karina wins a copy of Arsis’ new album, Starve for the Devil, signed by the band, and an Arsis poster that is also signed by the band. Congrats, Karina! March is Metal Month continues [...]

L O S T WITH AS I LAY DYING’S NICK HIPA: SIMILARITIES, DIFFERENCES, AND QUESTIONS ABOUT THE TWO TIMELINES

Nick Hipa — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:00:59 +0000

Virtually every Sayid episode we’ve ever seen has delved into some form of his past and inner gnarliness, so it only makes sense that last week’s “Sundown” blasted us with all sorts of action, violence, and brutality. Viewing the episode for substance, though, we were only handed little nuggets of answers to some very [...]

A METALSUCKS EXCLUSIVE: METALSUCKS READERS INTEVIEW DARK TRANQUILLITY FRONTMAN MIKAEL STANNE

MetalSucks — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:30:06 +0000

Ye asked… and ye shall get answers. We solicited reader questions for frontman Mikael Stanne of Dark Tranquillity — whose new album We Are the Void comes out today – and in turn Mikael has answered them for you in equal helpings of funny and serious. Your questions, his answers; does he ever get mistaken for [...]

DEPSWA VENT SEVEN YEARS OF FRUSTRATION ON DISTORTED AMERICAN DREAM

Vince Neilstein — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:00:33 +0000

Axl and I have something of a fascinating with hard pop-metal band Depswa. Or more like I have a serious infatuation and Axl just humors me. But we’re both at the very least happy that Depswa are finally about to release their second album Distorted American Dream; it only took them seven years! Depswa have the [...]

LUDICRA CAN CREATE MAYHEM ON THEIR OWN, THANK YOU VERY MUCH

Axl Rosenberg — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:30:26 +0000

Back in January, Mayhem announced a tour with some ridiculously awesome support acts, including Ludicra, Krallice, and Tombs; then, in true Mayhem fashion, they cancelled the tour just a couple of weeks later. And I think pretty much everyone had the same reaction: “Ludicra, Krallice, and Tombs should just tour without Mayhem.” Because it was [...]

FREE MARCH IS METAL MONTH SAMPLE AVAIL FOR DOWNLOAD!

MetalSucks — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:00:57 +0000

MARCH IS METAL MONTH IS UNDERWAY!!! And as Vince promised last week, there’s a free sampler now avail featuring artists from many of the participating labels. That means you can download tracks by Fear Factory, Ihsahn, Triptykon, Suicide Silence, Lacuna Coil, Queensryche, White Wizzard, and more, all for the cost of breathing. Head over to [...]

RHAPSODY OF FIRE NOT QUITE AS CHEESY AS THEY USED TO BE

Vince Neilstein — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:30:32 +0000

Once-upon-a-long-time-ago a band called Rhapsody were partially responsible for getting me back into metal after a hiatus that lasted through the early part of the nu-metal fad. It was the heyday of Napster, and my college roommate and I were downloading non-stop on our totally awesome T3 connection. Inevitably we landed on ’80s metal cheese, [...]

LET THE “CRAZY TRAIN” RANDY RHOADS MASH-UP MADNESS BEGIN

Vince Neilstein — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:00:42 +0000

The release of David Lee Roth’s isolated vocal track from “Runnin’ With the Devil” was an Internet goldmine resulting in one of the most entertaining soundboards in the history of ever and countless mash-ups, some good and some not-so-good. While the surfacing of what appears to be Randy Rhoads’ isolated guitar tracks from “Crazy Train” [...]

I AM THE BLAWG: OZZY & JUDAS PRIEST ON TRIAL

Antonin Skullia Esq. — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:30:15 +0000

On October 26, 1984, John McCollum killed himself after having listened to Ozzy Osbourne’s Blizzard of Ozz, Diary of a Madman, and Speak of the Devil. While playing the latter, McCollum put a gun to his temple and killed himself. Two years later, his parents filed suit in California against Ozzy and his label, CBS [...]

EXCLUSIVE WEB DEBUT OF THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN’S “CHINESE WHISPERS”

MetalSucks — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:00:40 +0000

The release of The Dillinger Escape Plan’s Option Paralysis, their first album in more than two years, is just weeks away. If that’s not cause for rejoicing amongst metalheads everywhere, than nothing is. Few bands have pushed the envelope or influenced the scene this past decade as much as DEP, and Option Paralysis continues that [...]

THE METALSUCKS SXSW 2010 METAL GUIDE: UPDATES

Vince Neilstein — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:30:44 +0000

I’ve updated the official MetalSucks SXSW 2010 Metal Guide to include shows suggested by our readers. Thanks to everyone who contributed! DOWNLOAD THE UPDATED SXSW METAL SCHEDULE HERE. As before, if you know about any shows we missed please let us know. -VN RELATED POSTS:THE METALSUCKS SXSW 2010 METAL GUIDE!SOME ROCK N’ ROLL FROM BROKEN TEETH TO KICK OFF [...]

SILENT CIVILIAN’S “ATONEMENT” IS, LIKE, SO 2004

Axl Rosenberg — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:00:00 +0000

I enjoyed a handful of tracks off of Silent Civilian’s 2006 debut, Rebirth of the Temple; I seem to recall “Bitter Pill” having a pretty cool guitar solo and a catchy chorus. It was certainly better than front man Jonny Santos’ other, more famous band, Spineshuck. So we were stoked to hear what SC came [...]

BEHEMOTH’S NERGAL FACES UP TO TWO YEARS IN PRISON FOR DESTRUCTION OF A BIBLE

Axl Rosenberg — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:30:05 +0000

Somebody call Antonin Skullia. Nergal has been formally charged with insulting Roman Catholics after he called the Catholic Church “the most murderous cult on the planet” and destroyed a copy of the Bible on-stage during a 2007 concert (video above). This is possible because offending someone with regards to their religion is apparently a criminal act [...]

DO QUICKSAND RIVAL RIVAL SCHOOLS?

Vince Neilstein — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:07:42 +0000

The reactions to yesterday’s post about the Rival Schools reunion record were much to my surprise mostly positive, which I guess could just indicate that those who didn’t know the band chose to skip over the post. But I’m guessing that even more of you were/are fans of Quicksand, Walter Schreifels’ main post-Gorilla Biscuits squeeze. [...]

DRAGONFORCE LOSE SINGER, EVERYONE ELSE GOES ABOUT THEIR BUSINESS

Axl Rosenberg — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:31:50 +0000

DragnForce have parted ways with vocalist ZP Theart “due to insurmountable differences of musical opinion.” I’m not sure what qualifies as “insurmountable differences of musical opinion” in DragonForceland; did Theart want the music to get even faster? Slower? More keyboards? Fewer guitar solos? A horn section? Who knows, and, more to the point, who cares? Metalheads [...]

NATIVE’S ARMS ARE SNAKES

Vince Neilstein — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:01:14 +0000

I’m patting myself on the back today. I opened a link from a trusted publicist about a band called Native, and after pressing play the first thing I thought was “Gee, this drummer sounds a lot like These Arms Are Snakes’ Chris Common.” And while Chris Common is unfortunately not the drummer for Native, when [...]

RATT ARE INFESTING MY EARS IN A SERIOUS WAY WITH NEW ALBUM

Vince Neilstein — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:13:53 +0000

Exactly two people will be really psyched to know that MetalGF and I celebrated Ratturday in full force this past weekend whilst riding in the Vincemobile, a ravishing 1988 Honda Accord (for full mood effect… yeah… that’s the reason for the shitty car…). The rest of you should join in on the party. It’s really [...]

HOLY SHIT, ARE THOSE DOUCHE BAGS AT METALSUCKS REALLY DOING ANOTHER LIST TO MAKE EVERYONE ANGRY?!?!

MetalSucks — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:00:32 +0000

WE SURE ARE! We won’t be unveiling the list until next week, but in the meantime, here are some teasers to annoy you: No industry folks voted in this one – just the editors and staff of MetalSucks. That means if you hate the list, you have no one to blame but us! The list spans metal’s entire [...]

PESTILENCE REIGNS UPON NORTH AMERICA

MetalSucks — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:30:18 +0000

As part of our ongoing effort to bring brutal metal tours to you, our deserving (sometimes) readership, MetalSucks and Decibel are proud to present a Spring headline run featuring technical death metal legends Pestilence, their first US tour in over 16 years! The 17-date journey will kick off in Baltimore as part of the Maryland [...]

IRON MAN 2 WILL BE THE MOST METAL MOVIE OF THE YEAR… LITERALLY

Axl Rosenberg — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:00:44 +0000

If you weren’t already excited for Iron Man 2, this oughta do the trick: our friends at Metal Insider report that Tom Morello has revealed via Twitter that none other than Tom Morello is working on the score for the film in conjunction with composer John Debney (who also did the music for director Jon [...]